#25 Android / Cyborg

[BiG ToE-3DT]

Low Poly Mini Contest #25
Subject – Andriod/Cyborg
ALL WIPS AND CONCEPTS ARE TO BE KEPT IN THIS THREAD.

Take what you know about the world and all the living creatures in it and robot it all up. What would a dog look like if it was half robot, what would a fish look like with a robotic fin, what about a human. This comp is open to everything with living organs, no plant life this time around. This means if you feel like doing an animal, go for it, if you want to see an ant with radio antennas, I want to see it too. Nothing to hold you back means the only limit to your imagination is you. These Androids can be simple as a half robot half rabbit, or as complex as 15 foot Cyborg War hungry machine. You can’t go wrong with your creation, the only way you can fail at this one, is by not trying. Go give the robots some DNA.

Have Fun!

Judging: 3 categories of judging will apply. 10 points possible for each:

Presentation - How well you can display your art work
Model – How well the geometry is constructed, how well it looks like the subject.
Texture – how well the texture space has been used and how well the texture is painted/applied.

DUE DATE: October 12th, 5 weeks and a few days from today! 11:59 pm GMT - SUNDAY

Idea:

Model an Andriod/Cyborg of some sort; they have to have some flesh/living tissue incorporated. The amount of tissue is up to you, but it needs to be visible, and easily identifiable. The rest is completely up to you.

Poly limit:

8,000 Tris Total. You can do whatever you want with these, just don’t get carried away and don’t exceed the 8,000 Tri Limit. Remember, the limit tells you where to stop, there is no minimum, so use as much of the limit as you see fit.

Textures:
2048 x 2048 texture. This means 2048 for color, 2048for bump, 2048 for normal, 2048 opacity, so on and so forth. You can chop it up into whatever you want, but you still need to go all out in your texture.

Textures can be hand-painted or you can use photographic sources. Do what you do.

Prizes: (only available with 6 or more final entries)

1st Place gets the following:
- 12-month subscription to the 2DCreative magazine
- 12-month subscription to the 3DCreative magazine

2nd Place gets the following:
- 12-month subscription to the 3DCreative magazine

3rd Place gets the following:
- 6-month subscription to the 3DCreative magazine

Final Pictures:

Required In The Final Post (1 post per entry):

- 1 x Winning pose shot. This image should consist of your character(s) in some sort of a pose.

- 1 x Beauty shot of your character(s). Feel free to put multiple angles of your character(s) or just one big version or your character(s) on this page. Even better, try to composite a nice art piece similar to the ones in the Winners' Gallery. Be careful how you do this though, simple is often better. It’s up to you.

- 1 x wire frame shot of your character(s). Feel free to put multiple wire frame shots or just one big wire frame shot on this page. It is up to you. Must have polycount included.

- 1 x texture sheet that includes all your used sheets squeezed into "one" sheet.

- Concept Sheet

A Final Entry Thread will be up and waiting around the end of the third week/beginning of fourth week. Don’t forget to submit your work by posting it in the final thread.

Good luck everyone!
BiG ToE.

[Novian]

Nice, here we go! Good luck everyone. I'm sure we will see some great models.

Cheers~

[Animaleante]

I have a question.
I was thinking about the half rabbit/half robot, and wanted to know...does it have to be the regular four-legged animal, or can I do a humanoid rabbit? Like an anthro animal (I guess this is the term)

[mies]

Im gonna make a Robot chicken with a alarm clock instead of his head..

[poopipe]

that is a brilliant idea

I wont get away with making a tentacled, bipedal mech with a half naked, big-boobed amputee chick hanging off it will I?

[Bananaman]

I might be joining this one, depends on my concept art, if i can finish it or not. I always seem to get stuck on the concept art.
I was thinking of either a bunny or a frog.. not sure yet.

Lets see where my concept (if i finish it) takes me.

[Novian]

Originally Posted by poopipe

that is a brilliant idea

I wont get away with making a tentacled, bipedal mech with a half naked, big-boobed amputee chick hanging off it will I?

lol poopipe That defiantly sounds like it would be interesting!

Cheers~

[Perversonality]

Originally Posted by poopipe

that is a brilliant idea

I wont get away with making a tentacled, bipedal mech with a half naked, big-boobed amputee chick hanging off it will I?

Well, you could completely redo it from the ground up like Pog did with his turtle for the last contest

[poopipe]

bugger that for a laugh

I've got a simple-ish robot chick design floating round in my head, I'll just put flesh in the more important areas


this is a nice opportunity to test out my new zbrush first workflow technique in anger

[Novian]

Yeah I have a test I'm going to run when I get home for Normals.

I'm obviously able to generate a low and high poly version of the mesh but when I follow the instructions for baking Normals in Max it never comes out right. I will have to post an example tonight.

Does anyone have experience with 3ds Max and normals that would be willing to have a look and shoot me some advice?

Cheers~

[InProgress]

I think I'll join this one. Sounds fun.

[poopipe]

Originally Posted by Novian

Does anyone have experience with 3ds Max and normals that would be willing to have a look and shoot me some advice?

yes
and yes


the chances are all your questions can be answered the normal workflow tutorial on poopinmymouth.com though

[Novian]

poopipe: Thank you very much.

Cheers~

[Humfleet]

hey all kinda new to this how contest stuff...so i thought i would give it a shot..hope i can come up with something good...

[dhin]

hell ya, I'm in.

Off to draw now.